nervous - Story 92063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder than usual, the fluorescent lights humming a discordant tune. Amelia fiddled with the zipper on her backpack, her fingers clumsy and fumbling. She’d been putting this off all day, inventing errands, anything to delay the inevitable. Her heart thumped a staccato rhythm against her ribs.

She finally clicked on the link, a wave of nausea washing over her. The screen swam before her eyes. The acceptance or the rejection could dictate the next chapter of her life.

The words appeared, and she felt her world contract. She closed her eyes, fighting back the sting behind them. When she opened them, the printed words danced on the screen.

Emotion: nervous

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.47

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion nervous. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 nervous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the nervous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the nervous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.229
`trem`	0.203
`😰`	0.203
`😨`	0.201
`緊張`	0.200

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.397
`que`	-0.260
`a`	-0.242
`B`	-0.217
`H`	-0.210